I think you're right...he's played 60 odd Tests in my game with an average of 40...
Rikki Clarke averages 50 with the bat and 30 with the ball domestically and can't hack it at Test level...
Trescothick is the England wicketkeeper at 37...

I've lost my touch on reality

Originally Posted by cpr

3. Although Cow Tipping is a hilarious student game in backwater towns such as Bangor, there really is no need for Mitchell to cover one side of the cow in superglue

I hardly see so - Gough actually bowled extremely well, just got hammered, as pretty much anyone will, when coming back later.
Be much best if he'd not been brought back after his initial spell of 6-11-1.

It'd generally have been better if he'd missed that game - no-one was exactly good, but that was a shocker.

And though he was England's best bowler in South Africa in terms of economy rate, that was highly inflated by bowling to someone who shouldn't have been in the team in the last ODI and a spell in clouds where Hoggard took 2-35 in the first, and he was for the most part doing just as poorly as everyone else.

It's harder to look for the winning contributions he's made since the start of 2004...

It'd be more accurate to say since 2000, but there's simply no two ways about the fact that Gough is a better ODI bowler than most, if not all bar Flintoff, others available.
I've long said Gough didn't bowl as well in South Africa as some said, but there's no two ways about the fact he bowled exceptionally in the First and Sixth games.
Gough was pretty poor latterly last summer, and had a few shockers at the end of the one before.
That still doesn't change the fact that he's done better than most.

Which is, frankly, only 2 series (better described as 7 games, because it'd have been better to play Australia in 1 series). People have had poor series many times.
Somehow I doubt you'd give the same crap to Harmison for being smashed all over the shop in Pakistan.

Then the disgraceful way he's ducked out of Pakistan before Xmas.

What the hell is so disgraceful about that? Players have "ducked" out of tours plenty of times.

He's lost it big time and should never play for England again.

So, it'd be better to let the current pie-chuckers keep being clattered?

I hardly see so - Gough actually bowled extremely well, just got hammered, as pretty much anyone will, when coming back later.
Be much best if he'd not been brought back after his initial spell of 6-11-1.

Initial spell of 6-11-1? *wonders how Cricinfo recorded it as 4-1-23-0...including five wides with the first two balls...*

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